Emma Rothschild

Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived...

They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones—four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages,...

Shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations. Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived...